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Dr. Clare Clarke

Associate Professor (English)
      
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Dr. Clare Clarke

Associate Professor (English)

 clarkc11@tcd.ie

 


I joined the School of English at Trinity as an Assistant Professor in 19th-Century Literature in 2014, having previously taught at Queen's University Belfast and having held an IRC Post-Doctoral research fellowship at Trinity in 2012-2013. I have two major research interests: late-nineteenth century popular fiction and crime and detective fiction from the Victorian period to the present day. I have published widely on Victorian crime fiction in journals such as Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, and CLUES: A Journal of Detection. My first monograph Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock (Palgrave Macmillan: 2014) was the winner of the HRF Keating Award for best non-fiction crime book of the year. My second monograph, British Detective Fiction 1891-1901: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes was published by Palgrave in July 2020. I am currently working on three projects: a new monograph project, which is a cultural history of private detection in Britain; a new edition of The Return of Sherlock Holmes for Edinburgh University Press; The Cambridge Companion to True Crime, co-edited with my colleague Prof Bernice M. Murphy. Teaching: Much of my teaching involves nineteenth-century popular literature and/or crime fiction. My Sophister Option courses are Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, The Art of Murder, and Reading Like a Victorian: The Woman in White in instalments. At Fresher level, I am convenor of 'British Romantic Literature' and teach on Pulp, US American Identities, Cultures of Retelling, and the Trinity Elective module Travel and Literature. At Postgraduate level, I am the Co-Director, with Professor Darryl Jones, of the MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literary On the MPhil I also offer the option module 'Shedunnit: Women and Crime from the 19th to the 21st century.' PhD and Postdoctoral Supervision I welcome enquiries about doctoral and postdoctoral research on the following topics: crime fiction, true crime, Victorian periodical and newspaper culture, fin de siècle literature, popular genres, professional authorship. I would especially warmly welcome proposals for projects dealing with late Victorian popular fiction, particularly crime or detective fiction. Contact Dr Clare Clarke School of English Arts Building Room 4004 Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2, Ireland Email: clare.clarke@tcd.ie
  19th Century Literature & Science   20th Century literature   American Literature   Book History   CRIME   crime fiction   Detective and Crime Fiction   Gothic Literature   Language and/or Literature, Fiction   NEWSPAPERS   Nineteenth century literature   periodical studies   Victorian Literature and Culture   Victorian newspapers   victorian periodicals
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Membership of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals 2008 present
Membership of the British Association for Victorian Studies 2010 present
Membership of the Irish Network for Nineteenth-Century Studies (Association Rep for Trinity College Dublin) 2019 present
Member of the Victorian Popular Fiction association 2016
Clare Clarke, Private Inquiries and Secret Watchings: A Cultural History of the Victorian Detective, 2027, Book, ACCEPTED
Clare Clarke and Bernice M Murphy, The Cambridge Companion to True Crime, Cambridge, CUP, 2026, Book, IN_PRESS
Clare Clarke, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Edinburgh, EUP, 2026, Book, IN_PRESS
Clare Clarke, Review of Samuel Saunders' The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction, Review of The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction, by Samuel Saunders , CLUES: A Journal of Detection, 40, (2), 2022, p131-132 , Review, PUBLISHED
CLUES: A Journal of Detection, 39, 1, (2021), 1 - 116p, Clare Clarke, Eva Burke, [Co-editor], Journal, PUBLISHED
Clare Clarke, British Detective Fiction 1893-1900: The Successors to Sherlock Holmes., Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, xii - 166pp, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59563-8], Book, PUBLISHED
"Holmes, Doyle, and Victorian Publishing." in, editor(s)Janice Allan and Christopher Pittard , The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp2 - 21, [Clare Clarke], Notes: [https://doi-org.elib.tcd.ie/10.1017/9781316659274], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
LT Meade, Sisters of Sherlock, and the Strand Magazine in, editor(s)Alexis Easley, Clare Gill, and Beth Rodgers, eds , The Edinburgh History of Victorian Women and Print Media, 1830-1900, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2019, pp1-20 , [Clare Clarke], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Detective Fiction, Lesa Scholl, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women Writers, Basingstoke and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, [Clare Clarke], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
"Jo Nesbo: Murder in the Folkhemmet. in, editor(s)Bernice M Murphy and Stephen Matterson , Twenty-First Century Popular Fiction. , Edinburgh, EUP, 2018, [clare clarke], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
  

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"Crimes and Detections" in, editor(s)Andrew King , OUP Handbook to Victorian Popular Fiction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2027, [Clare Clarke], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Clare Clarke, 'A Shrine of Pilgrimage: Dark Tourism in Late Victorian Newspapers' Ripper Reportage'., Edge Hill University EHU19's Seminar Series (2022), EDge Hill University (online), 9 May 2022, 2022, Edge Hill University, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Clare Clarke, "Forget Sherlock Holmes and try these other Victorian detectives." The Independent, 2022, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Clare Clarke, 'Invited Expert Guest on RTE Arena: Celebrating Patricia Highsmith at 100', 2021, -, Broadcast, PUBLISHED
Clare Clarke, Matthew Sweet, Shrabani Basu, Invited panellists., The Real World of Arthur Conan Doyle: British Library Histfest, 2021, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Clare Clarke, Bah Humbug! The weird and wonderful world of Victorian Christmas cards, Bah Humbug! The weird and wonderful world of Victorian Christmas cards, Trinity Long Room Hub (online), Dec 2021, 2021, Trinity Long Room Hub, Invited Talk, SUBMITTED
Clare Clarke, Beyond Sherlock Holmes: five Victorian detective stories you must read." The Conversation., 2021, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Clare Clarke, Move over Sherlock: The Radical Edge to Enola Holmes (Netflix)." Independent.ie , The Independent , 2021, Review Article, PUBLISHED
Clare Clarke, Faculty in Focus with Dr Clare Clarke. Chair: Prof Eve Patten., aculty in Focus with Dr Clare Clarke. , Trinity Long Room Hub (online), Nov 2020, 2020, Trinity Long Room Hub, Invited Talk, SUBMITTED
Clare Clarke, 'Conan Doyle and Cities', 'Arthur Conan Doyle in Edinburgh', Edinburgh Napier University, 24-25 September, 2020, Edinburgh Conan Doyle Network , Invited Talk, SUBMITTED

  


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Award Date
TCD Provost's Project Award 2020
IRC New Foundations Award 2019
British Association for Contemporary Literary Studies (BACLS) Event Endorsement grant 2019
2017-2020 Principal Investigator for Eva Burke, IRC Doctoral Scholarship, PI for Doctoral Funding, 36 months (2017-2020) 2017
TCD Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund 2016
TCD Arts and Social Sciences Benefaction Fund 2015
HRF Keating Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book 2015
Royal Irish Academy Charlemont Award 2014
IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2012
Queen's University Belfast Special Research Scholarship, doctoral funding (fees and maintenance) 2008-2010